A devil of a story

The modern Churchman, in all his spiritual misery, has been a happy staple of British literature for generations. Especially to the great comic novelists (Fielding, Trollope, Waugh), the clergyman plagued with doubts or worse, ideas about his Christian faith epitomizes the hypocrisy of British society and the uneasy mix of the old and new. In our own day, unprecedented reservoirs of godless...